curie

See also: Curie

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French curie. Named after (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French physicist Pierre Curie (1859 - 1906).

Noun

curie (plural curies)

1. 3.7×10¹⁰ decays per second, as a unit of radioactivity. Symbol Ci.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• curietherapy
• megacurie
• microcurie

• millicurie
• picocurie

Anagrams

• urcei, ureic

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Aromanian

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish قوری (korı, koru).

Noun

curíe f (plural curii)

1. grove, little forest

References

• Поленаковиќ, Харалампие (2007) “413. CURÍE sb. f. pl. curiǐ”, in Зузана Тополињска, Петар Атанасов, editors, Турските елементи во ароманскиот [Turskite elementi vo aromanskiot]‎^[1], put into Macedonian from the author’s Serbo-Croatian Turski elementi u aromunskom dijalektu (1939, unpublished) by Веселинка Лаброска, Скопје: Македонска академија на науките и уметностите [Makedonska akademija na naukite i umetnostite], →ISBN, page 105

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ky.ʁi/

Etymology 1

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin curia

Noun

curie f (plural curies)

1. curia (all meanings)

Etymology 2

From Curie; Named after Pierre Curie (1859 - 1906), physicist.

Noun

curie m (plural curies)

1. curie

Derived terms

Derived terms

• curiethérapie

Anagrams

• cuire, cuiré

Further reading

• “curie”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

curie f

1. plural of curia

Noun

curie m (uncountable)

1. curie (unit of measure)